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[VIEILH DE VARENNES, Raymond-Augustin; MOREAU, Jean-Michel].Biblio.com

Collection des drapeaux faits dans les soixante districts de Paris en juillet 1789.

réf. 111332Paris 1789-1790. . First edition; 4to 28.5 x 20.6 cm; 60 numbered engravings some printed on blue paper all with fine contemporary hand-colouring sometimes heightened and stencilled in gold with tissue guards unsigned nos. 1-30 & 41 captioned below in yellow stencil imprimées au frotton nos. 31-60 with engraved captions flag for pl. 46 blank as issued extra-illustrated with 2 engraved portraits of Bailly tipped in to flyleaf engraved frontispiece by Moreau le Jeune engraved view of the Champs de Mars in Paris loosely inserted tipped-in autograph letter from Bailly and biographical excerpt from the 'Iconographie instructive' 2ff of loose material further pertaining to provenance occasional light toning and spotting particularly affecting tipped-in engravings; contemporary tree calf covers with a gilt scrolled border fan designs gilt tooled to corners with red morocco inlays central oval fan ornament with gilt red morocco inlay at centre edges and inner dentelles gilt rebacked to match corners restored slightly rubbed very good. One of the rarest 18th-century French illustrated books even rarer with contemporary hand-colouring and apparent revolutionary provenance. A beautiful series of engravings illustrating the revolutionary flags for the ten battalions of each of the six divisions of the Garde Nationale created in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1789. Exceedingly rare this collection provides the only witness that we have of these flags which were all destroyed by decree in 1792 owing to the monarchical symbols they contained. A finely coloured copy highlighted and stencilled in gold and bound in a style similar to those made by Bozerian. It was first described when presented to the National Assembly on 7 October 1790 by Raymond Augustin Vieilh de Varennes most likely the artist whose work was engraved by Jean-Michel Moreau Moreau le Jeune. This copy was most likely presented to Jean-Sylvain Bailly 1736-1793 the first revolutionary Mayor of Paris by Pierre Francois Palloy 1755-1835 who called himself 'Palloy Patriote'. The autograph letter tipped-in to the work is from Bailly to Palloy thanking him for his gift and recommending him for his patriotism: 'Je recois avec rensibilité le nouveau présent de tu Palloy. Il donne tous les jours de nouvelles prevues de patriotisme et il acquiert tous les jours des nouveaux droits à ma reconnaissance je le prie d'agréer me remerciements et mes compliments J.S. Bailly'. Palloy was a building contractor who only two days after the storming of the Bastille on 14th July 1789 secured the contract to demolish the prison. While he removed most of the building over the subsequent months Palloy profited from the possession of it by conducting tours showing the public around the basements and dungeons with skeletons as props and by writing speeches and arranging celebratory festivals and theatrical reconstructions of the day the Bastille fell all for a fee. He sold parts as souvenirs including replica Bastilles made from the stones of the building itself. The creator of this work Vieilh de Varennes an artist and publisher was also contracted as 'Garde-magasin général des démolitions de la Bastille' and was undoubtedly also connected to Palloy and thus likely involved in the work's presentation to Bailly. The work is extra-illustrated with a very rare engraving mounted as a frontispiece by Moreau le Jeune engraved by Dambrun and published by Vieilh de Varennes. The background depicts the marquis de La Fayette and the storming of the Bastille while in the foreground the people of Paris are mounting a portrait of Bailly on a pedestal beneath a bust of Louis XVI. The image also shows workers beginning the demolition of the Bastille. Bailly was elected Mayor of Paris shortly after the storming of the Bastille. A renowned astronomer mathematician freemason and political leader of the early part of the Revolution he presided over the Tennis Court Oath and was himself the first to take the oath as beautifully depicted in a drawing by David. He served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791 but was subsequently guillotined in 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The work has a second loosely inserted plate unsigned of the Champs de Mars ironically where Bailly was later executed. Irwin Laughlin 1871-1941 likely acquired the book whilst stationed at the US embassy in London from 1912 to 1919. Prior to that the book was in the possession of the gentleman collector Sir William Augustus Fraser 1826-1898 a member of the Society of Dilettanti whose library was sold by Sotheby's in 1901. 'The chief items were extra-illustrated books and books with autograph inscriptions by distinguished persons' ODNB. Very rare. We can locate only 4 copies of the 1789 edition in institutional collections worldwide: Library of Congress coloured John Hay Library at Brown University coloured National Library of Sweden undescribed and the BnF undescribed. Bobins V 1586; Destailleur 180 Cohen/de Ricci p.248; Tourneux 6712. [Paris, 1789-1790]. unknown

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Pelee de Varennes, Marie-Joseph-HippolyteBiblio.com

Les Loisirs Des Bords Du Loing Ou Recueil De Pièces Fugitives

1784réf. 12552Langlée by Montargis: C. Lequatre 1784. Contemporary gilt-ruled porphyry calf rubbed bumped joints cracked flat spine gilt crown chipped gilt-lettered black morocco label all edges gilt. First Edition first issue only fifty copies printed. It was overseen by Pierre-Alexandre Léorier de l'Isle 1744-1826 who began experimenting with vegetable papers in the 1770s at the Langlée mill of which he was director. The Loing river powered the mill as it passed Montargis. The work is in three parts. The historical jottings by local literati lxp. and the often amusing occasional verse by printer poet and Montargis magistrate Pelée de Varennes 139p. are beautifully executed in small type on rose-colored paper. The remarkable Supplément has fifteen leaves printed on rectos only. Three of these leaves are rose on their rectos and white on their versos an effect Léorier achieved by introducing dye into the slurry prior to making the sheets. The famous three sample leaves announced as Essais de Papiers Fabriqués avec de l'Herbe de la Soie et du Tilleul were manufactured respectively from grass silk and lime bark and sport poetry: "the paper is thin very smooth and has no chain or wire lines" Basanoff tr. THE VERSES ON TWO OF THESE LEAVES TOUT LÉORIER'S EXTRAORDINARY TECHNICAL ADVANCES IN ECOLOGICAL PAPERMAKING as does the poem on page 72. The book concludes with ten more especially striking bicolor printed leaves: intense red and dark blue gray and yellow-green etc. Les Loisirs has two issues. That offered here on rose paper with 139 pages plus the fifteen-leaf Supplément and the traditional rag paper 152-page version share the same setting of type to page 128 L4v. Ours closes with a final poem in nine strophes pp. 129-32 a table of contents and the Supplément discussed above. The other issue has slightly altered preliminaries and concludes with four other poems and an adjusted table of contents. The rose paper copies' watermark of a laurel wreath and three lilies is encircled by the motto Lilia quando favent Vincitur Arte Labor When the Lilies nod Labor is conquered by Art. The traditional rag paper issue watermark is a cardinal's hat flowers pot etc. Heawood 3695. It is well known that the literary contents and the order of pieces in the Supplément vary copy to copy. However close examination reveals THE SETTING OF TYPE OF THE SUPPLÉMENT POEMS ALSO VARIES COPY TO COPY suggesting the sample and bicolor leaves may have been produced on demand for individual recipients or at least produced at different times. In good condition short tear in the blank margin of pp. xii-xiv oval blue stamp and signature of politician and historian Louis-Nicolas-Jean-Joachim de Cayrol 1775-1859; Catalogue 1861 1095 engraved bookplate of papermaker Paul Darblay 1825-1908 mottoed Val cognatrix. ¶Breton-Gravereau "La Fabrication manuelle du papier en Occident" in L'Aventure des écritures: matières et formes Exposition BnF edd. Breton-Gravereau & Thibault 1998 167 & reprod. 151a; Basanoff "Le Papier botanique" in Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre 14 1977 107-125; Barbier "Les Innovations techniques" in Histoire de l'édition française II: 39 38 reprod. of Langlée papermaking equipment; Dictionnaire encylopédique du livre II: 727; Hunter Papermaking 327-8 & 610 "50 copies printed". C. Lequatre unknown

Bruce McKittrick Rare Books · États-Unis21 275,00 $US≈ 19 007,43 €

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